What Is This Fish?

[Kribster]

Ok people, we get a lot of topics like this from newbies to the hobby (someone in my store didnt know what a guppy was!!) but now its for real.

My LFS just got a fish delivery, and the aquatics center has buggered up again. We found an unknown type of gobie in with the plants. The aquatics ppl came out and looked at it, and they don't breed this fish. Apparently the plants were brought in from a "warehouse" type facility.

Long story short, i bought the fish before they could take it back, and it is living happily alongside Guppies, Neons, a Flying Fox and a kribensis.
Below (or attatched) are some pics of the mystery fish.

My dad, the aquatics ppl and i are all cluless as to what it is, and it doesnt match up to anything in "The Complete Encyclopedia of Tropical Fish" by Ramshorst.

Its all up to you now....

Good luck...

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[starrynightxxi]

it appears to be a Mogurnda species to me, but not sure which as they are very similar. There's a few folk in the oddballs forum who may be able to help you sort it out.

 

[Kribster]

thanks, i'll try. Looking though the book again i think it is of either the cyprinodontide or eleotridae families.

K

 

[Kribster]

Plz ppl, coment on the pics. Ive had 20 views and 1 reply.......

 

[starrynightxxi]

Fishbase - list of mogurnda species

they are eleotridae

Also, they aren't overly common on the market. Don't think they're rare, just not regularly seen. People are probably not commenting because you want an ID and they've never seen the fish before either.

 

[Kribster]

lol kk

 

[Kribster]

AHA

Thankyou starnight,

Its an australian Northern Trout Gudgeon

Wierd, our aquatics ppl dont do australian fish...


K

 

[thegnu]

hi,
I think it is a Peacock Goby, Gudgeon, Tateurndina ocellicauda

 

[starrynightxxi]

no, it's not a peacock. I have both peacocks and the mogurnda mogurnda and the fins are entirely different, though people often think they look similar.

Just a word of cautino, this species is highly predatory and gets to about 6 inches. it's only a matter of time until it eats your guppies and neons. Anything under the 2 - 2.5 inch mark is in danger, actually.

 

[CFC]

Morgurnda adspersa from the looks of things, Morgurnda mogurnda have less pointy heads.

Starrynight is right, it will eat all your fish.

 

[Kribster]

yea, i found that out this morning. 2 guppies (greedy thing).
im keeping it happy with live foods - it loves brine shrimp and daphnia.
I'll get loads more plants to give the other fish cover until my new tank arrives (200 litres - funfunfun)

 

[starrynightxxi]

oh yes, something i'm learning about gobies, and especially my mogurnda mogurnda, is that they are all stomach! I actually have to feed her first with something that she has to think about or she'll steal food from the bichir and the ABF who aren't generally as quick on the draw

Gobies are good fun though, very interactive fish.

 

[Kribster]

oh yes - mine knows exactly where the food comes from.

As soon as the jar of live food comes out, hes straight up to it, and follows the pippette up to the surface. still, he's a picky hunter - wont take any but the best lol.

 

[starrynightxxi]

and he wants it first, too, eh? that how mine is. in fact, she's realized that i feed the ABF seperately, and if I can get food to him, she doesn't get what he's having (meal worms). He's gotten to be quite a beggar himself, but now at feeding time, she'll drive him away unless i give her some first. Then in her excitement, she misses half the time and sends the worm to the bottom. But why chase it when she can just bully the ABF until she gets more? I am going through a lot of meal worms...

 

[fergalthefish]

its a sleeper goby